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In the age of dishonest reviews, piracy is the consumer's last weapon
Mar 19, 2026 · original
The critics who were supposed to help us filter out the noise have become an integral part of the noise itself. Just like everyone can now make and publish a book, an album, a movie, a videogame, so can anyone become an influential figure capable of swaying consumer sentiments. Just when we needed them the most, critics became as diluted and appeasing as the art itself. I will not live to 1000 years. I cannot waste my life curating a feed of influencers and constantly monitoring which new ones pop out, and which ones sell off, and which ones simply become insane and worthless to listen to. No, I will skip the middle man and see the world for myself. But the world must meet me half way. A radically consumeristic landscape needs a radical anti-consumeristic approach. If your book, movie, song, videogame, whatever, catches my interest, I will pirate it. If it's not garbage like most of the
"art" is a meaningless term
Feb 21, 2026 · original
Suppose I sat you down in a room, and told you that behind the door in front of you stood two paintings. Suppose I told you that one of the paintings is "art" and the other isn't. Is there anything , anything at all, you could gather from this description without seeing them? Does that mean the artful painting is more beautiful? More technically impressive? That it has certain themes? That it's popular? That it's loved by people? That it elicits emotions? No, none of these things separate "art" from the "not-art". Something that isn't art can still make you feel stuff, can still be highly technical, can still be beautiful. "Art", as it is actually used, is essentially a shorthand for "I value this thing a lot". It is subjectivity galore. It's a word that by itself explains nothing, describes nothing, suggests nothing.
It's not the Phone, it's Online Content
Dec 13, 2025 · original
Please, indulge in this extremely short thought experiment: Suppose an evil witch cast a spell on your smartphone and completely disabled any way for it to connect to the internet. How would the phone still make you lose time during the day with your current roaster of applications? Unless you're an avid mobile gamer of offline games, the answer would probably be: it wouldn't . That's because, in fact, there are very few applications a phone can have that would have you glued to the screen for hours on end that do not depend on showering you with online-based content. I know what you're thinking: isn't banning the internet a bit too much? I mean, online maps use the internet and I don't see people getting addicted to that... You're right Billy, there is a whole category of "utility" applications that make use of the internet, such as your email client, your calendar, your banking app, et
To avoid being replaced by AI: stop LARPing as a computer
Nov 30, 2025 · original
Can an LLM "conjure up" and write a 500-page novel a la Dickens? No. Can an LLM "conjure up" and write a 1000 words article a la TMZ? Yes. Can an LLM "conjure up", compose, and execute a 2-hour oratorio a la Bach? No. Can an LLM "conjure up", compose, and execute a modern pop song? Yes. Why? Because a journalist working for TMZ has to churn out an ungodly amount of articles. Because pop songs are also churned out, albeit by a large team of people, at light speed. Because, in order to meet the unrealistic demand they are faced with, artists and professionals try to automatize , structure , streamline , delegate . They need collaboration frameworks so every member of the team can connect their output to the others' inputs. Standard interfaces , standard tropes , standard formulations , both in creation and execution . It is not hard to imagine that an ML system, faced with such a huge amou
GDPR made Amazon gift me a USB stick
Nov 21, 2025 · original
Recently I had to do something quite unusual. Almost 2 years ago (foreshadowing, my beloved) I bought a pair of earbuds as a gift to a friend on Amazon. At the time, my Amazon account was registered with an institutional email address and was mostly used for buying educational equipment. Once my time at the institution started nearing its end, I decided to delete one by one all the accounts I created through that address, including Amazon's. Wouldn't you know it, after almost 2 years since giving away those earbuds, the friend mentioned that one of the buds suddenly stopped working for no apparent reason. No water damage, no sudden drop on the concrete, no journey through a toddler's digestive tract; thus, a successful warranty claim was still not out of the picture. Still, only a month or so was left until the 2 year warranty ran out, so we had to be (relatively) quick with our request.
What the Dead Internet Theory is not
Apr 23, 2025 · original
This creepypasta turned conspiracy had a very clear origin: a Web in which everything we interact with is not human. The tweets replying to your post? Bots. The likes on your Instagram? Bots. Your internet friends with whom you chat daily? Also bots. What the Dead Internet Theory is NOT about, though, is internet traffic being for the most part the result of bots and automation. The fact that IoT devices are constantly sending packets in the net does not mean the youtuber you usually watch is not real. The fact that scrapers, trading bots, and automated API calls take up quite a bit of the world's bandwidth does not mean all your friends are fake. The Internet is not the Web.
The Internet is not the Web
Apr 1, 2025 · original
But people keep conflating the two. Why? You would never confuse the street for the store, the intersection for the town, the interstate for the city. And yet everyone calls Facebook, Google, etc. "the Internet". But yes, I can imagine why this happens. Unlike getting a driver's license, you don't need to study and to pass an examination to connect to the internet. Unlike driving a car, you don't have to actually physically move through the hard concrete to get to the places you want. The internet is mostly transparent. It's a mediumless medium. The web has tried so hard to make people forget it's all elecrons and photons travelling in wires and in the ether. It's text, just like a book. It's video, just like the TV. It's music, just like the record player. Where is the internet? Where are the switches? And the routers? Hidden, far away from mortal gaze. Do fishes know what water is? Do
SIG Software
Mar 18, 2025 · original
I call "SIG software" or "SIG development" (as in "Special Interest Group") the practice of taking a piece of FOSS software and adding the functionalities you care about or have expertise in, and then leaving it at that. You can see this phenomenon in frequently-complained-about software such as Audacity or GIMP. During their development history, competent programmers have bolted on niche (and sometimes even advanced) functionalities they cared about, crammed them in a menu with the rest of the pile, and just left them there without a design in mind. Blender was also like this, but it famously made a major recovery and gained that feeling of cohesion that converted many people into using it.
I am addicted to YouTube
Jan 26, 2025 · original
I grew up with YouTube, it has shaped my habits and my mind. It truly is the TV of my generation. My addiction to YouTube is a boredom-driven one. When I have stuff to do I rarely even think about watching a video. In fact, even in situations where most people would pull out their phone to look at something (e.g. on a bus), I am so entranced by the experience that I just sit and take it all in. But when I'm at home is where the fun really begins. Almost everything I do has to have a video playing in the background, lest I miss out on content and waste my time. Out of curiosity, I even deactivated my only social media account, Instagram. It has all my friends, online and offline, and I use it almost exclusively to keep in contact with them. I don't use it to "consume content" or to waste my day, the SNR is extremely high. Nonetheless, I have been going on without it for more than a month,
The scam of "filmlike" cameras
Jan 26, 2025 · original
Have you noticed that videos or articles claiming that a piece of digital gear has "filmlike" qualities almost always talk about old equipment? The Sony A7sIII which came out just a couple of years ago? Nuh-uh, not filmlike. But the Canon 5D from 2005? Oh boy, would you look at that! And the Nikon D200 from the same year with its pristine CCD sensor? Now we're talking, brother! But if assessments about this "filmlike" quality of camera bodies (i.e. sensors) were based on objective metrics and not merely upon nostalgia or profit-induced clickbait, we would see articles from back in the day also tell us how the brand new Canon 5D almost looks like film. In fact, the farther you go back in time, the more reviewers would have been accustomed to shooting film, and would have lived through the digital transition, making them fully qualified to spot and appreciate such similarities! But alas, a

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